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Easy Living (1937)

Comedy | 88 minutes
3,42 20 votes

Genre: Comedy / Romance

Duration: 88 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Mitchell Leisen

Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold and Ray Milland

IMDb score: 7,5 (4.367)

Releasedate: 16 July 1937

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Easy Living plot

"It's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy!"

JB Ball, a wealthy financier, is fed up with his money-wasting family. He throws his wife's recently bought, very expensive coat out of the window in frustration. However, the coat lands on the head of the hard-working girl Mary Smith.

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Mary Smith

John Ball Jr.

Mrs. Jenny Ball

Mr. Louis Louis

Wallace Whistling

E.J. Hulgar

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BBarbie

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A screenplay by Preston Sturges naturally creates expectations. The film also starts promising, but in the second part a few annoying slapstick scenes unnecessarily spice up the story. That throwing, throwing and tumbling is not for me. A shame about the film, because Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold were doing so well in the beginning.

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mrklm

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A brilliant screenplay by Preston Sturges is the main explanation for the many hilarious moments in this screwball comedy in which Jean Arthur stars as Mary Smith, a young woman who - literally - gets an expensive fur coat after JB Ball, a wealthy businessman [ Edward Arnold] who throws his money-hungry wife [Mary Nash] out of his apartment on the street. After making sure she can keep it, Mary decides to show it off, but because not everyone believes she was given the coat as a gift, she finds herself in a tricky situation, especially when she befriends a man who works in an automatic machine. [Ray Milland] who happens to be JB Ball's son.

A brilliantly written and executed slapstick scene in the automatic is a masterpiece in itself and the somewhat stiff Ray Milland holds up quite well, but it is the chemistry between and the talent of Edward Arnold and Jean Arthur that do most justice to the excellent screenplay by Preston Sturges. A wonderfully idiotic comedy.

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clubsport

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Nice comedy in which an average woman is mistaken for the mistress of a wealthy banker because he spontaneously gave her his wife's fur coat as a gift.

One misunderstanding follows another plus some coincidences .

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